This article was written 13 years ago when the Ahmad Chalabi's useful time
expired for the United States.

Ahmed Chalabi is being accused of
espionage for IRI (Islamic Republic of Iran). He was a U.S. puppet before
the current charges by the Bush Administration. Regardless of the current
charges, one thing is obvious that recently Mr. Chalabi "forgot" how he came to
power in Iraq, and was trying to make deals on his own, to establish a Shi'a
state in Iraq. The whole organization of
Chalabi is a make-belief, and is not based on people's movement, and has no
popular support. This is why he was a broker between mollahs, U.S., and
others. He came to power by lobbying the U.S. for years, to invade Iraq,
to bring him to power.

Chalabi is called Reza Pahlavi
of Iraq, because RP of Iran, is a similar phenomenon, where his talk of
popular support and organizations of monarchists, are all make-belief, to
convince the U.S. to invade Iran. Reza Pahlavi's Myth of Democratic
Monarchy is not believed by any Iranian pro-democracy activist, those
who have put themselves at risk all these years and know the reality of RP's
Agents' Atrocities
in political forums, conferences, and demonstrations, rather than falling
for his clean PR work on TV. It is true that RP has not
officially bitten the hands of his masters, to fall from grace like Chalabi, but
the same way his agents go around and attack pro-democracy activists, when he
sits clean in TV interviews, claiming he has no knowledge of them, his agents
for years, have been going around, blaming the U.S. for Shah's fall, albeitname-calling
Carter. Basically the monarchists blame the
U.S. for Shah's fall,
and not Shah's despotism and the treachery of Savak against Iranian pro-democracy activists. Of course
Reza Pahlavi, like Chalabi, is clean and nice on TV doing PR work, and does not get
involved in all this blaming of the U.S. and British for Shah's fall, which his
agents do.

The best Reza Pahlavi can do,
is to call the end of Iranian monarchy and all its games to justify the failed
monarchy, when
Reza
Pahlavi & MKO are U.S. Liability in Iran,and these two forces have been the main distraction in the last three
decades, for the Iranian pro-democracy movement to succeed, because
every time the people had a chance to end IRI, the fear of possibility of these
two forces coming to power, stopped the people from going all the way to end IRI. It is interesting that the story of
puppets in the Middle East, did not start with Mohammad Reza Shah, or Saddam,
and will not end with them either. The grandfather of Iran's Reza Pahlavi,
whose title was Reza Shah, fell from grace of his British caretakers, when he
tried to make deals with Germanson his own, and the
allies removed him from power in 1941 (shahrivare
1320), which started a period of semi-democracy in Iran of 1941-1953 period. The above is in the nature of puppets,
that being a puppet means they lack principles, and because of lack of popular
support, they end up trying to make deals with various forces, to stay afloat.
Thus we see all these rise and fall of U.S. puppets, during the
Cold War years,
in the Middle East and elsewhere.

The story of Chalabi is not
much different, although in the words of a late friend of mine, he was a star
that did not even shine before falling. He is removed before the U.S.
deadline of June 30th, when the U.S. is scheduled to pass power to the Iraqi
Council. It seems like a deal with Saudi Arabia has been reached, when
Saudis are easing the oil prices for the U.S. What should the independent
forces in the Middle East do? We should defend the principles of democracy and
human rights and stay focused on those when making any decision and to avoid any
behind-the-door deals and be very open in all our negotiations. For example, a few days ago, I
read one of the respectable independence-minded leaders of Iraqi Council saying
that he had asked the U.S. not to have intense torture and he also talked of his
support for state economy in future Iraq. That gentleman's first
statement is against any principle of human rights, because one should condemn
any torture, period,with no ifs and buts, and not calling
for its reduction. This is how the socialist countries and many misguided people's movements ended up in despotism by justifying these actions. Why is he
trying to appease the Bush Administration? U.S. forces have been wrong to
torture. The same way, the heinous crimes of beheading and other
atrocities of terrorists, must be condemned, by all independent democratic
forces. One should stand by a
vision based on human
rights principles, and not try to appease the U.S. extremists or Middle East's
Islamists. That gentleman's second statement against
property-owning democracy and his support of state economy, shows his lack of
knowledge of modern history, and being stuck in the past socialist programs.
I have explained this topic in
Wealth and Justice in Future
Iran. In other words, he should catch up with the changes
in the world, rather than trying to propose obsolete plans for future of Iraq,
plans that can easily end up creating another Vietnam or North Korea in Iraq.

Let's return to lessons of Chalabi's
fall. The event does not only have lessons for Middle Eastern forces noted
above, it also has important
lessons for the
U.S., not to try to run the Middle East by puppets. From Shah of Iran to
Saddam, these are all stories of failure, and no matter how much Saudi royal
family today tries to praise the Shah for his role in the Persian Gulf, we all
know what a failure Shah's regime was. If Saudi's could fix the problems of
the Middle East, they should have stopped Al Qaedeh and Taliban which were their
creations, and why don't they stop the punishment of beheading in their own
country? It is true that Saudi Arabia is a U.S. ally. But, the
*independent* secular forces of the Middle East are also friends of the U.S., despite
the attempts of obsolete forces like
Saudi monarchy, to show the
secular republican forces to be U.S. enemies.

Puppets act like Chalabi,
because they have no popular base, and the same is the reason why Saudi's keep
appeasing Al Qaedeh terrorists, and Taliban before them , because Saudi monarchy
does not have a popular base, built on democratic principles, to be able to rely
on their people's support. The future of the Middle East
is secularism and democracy and clarity about What is Secularism is as
important as clarity about
democracy, and
patchwork deals with U.S. puppets will fall apart before the ink is dry.

We do
not want to end up with a new laws
worse than what we had, like it happened in 1979, a retrogressive
revolution
devouring its own activists in Iran. Islamic Republic of Iran must go, and
a secular republic will be formed in Iran by Iranian people. The forces
that support such development in Iran will not only help Iranians but will help
themselves by ending retrogressive Islamist regimes in the Middle East. The worst the Iraqi new rulers
can do is to start a new war with Iran, when we know how Iran-Iraq War caused all the devastations in
both countries for 8 years. Neither appeasing Iranian mullahs nor invading
Iran will help Iran or Iraq, as we saw when Saddam invaded Iran. Supporting Iranian
pro-democracy movement to end IRI, as noted in
Mr. Kerry, Islamic
Republic of Iran Must Go,and to form a secular democratic republic, are the building blocks to
create the Futurist
Iran, and to end terrorism and Islamism in the Middle East.